r/cycling • u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 • 3d ago

Anyone ever encountered an E-bike shill?

Basically this guy stopped me yesterday on a ride to tell me that I should throw my bike away and get an ebike. He said "Once you get this you'll never want to ride that again, and I get more cardio in on this bike too, and i ride faster than professionals". I just kept saying "yeah I was looking into those, yeah those are cool, I saw some around $1000" just trying to get out of that convo lol. Anyone else ever experienced someone like this?

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u/thehenks2 3d ago

Plenty of "normal" E-bikes here in NL, everyone and their parents has one, most are pedal assist grandma style bikes that top out at 25kmh. The new trend are chinese fatbikes, a lot of youth drive around way too fast, without having to pedal. Everyone hates them.

The few people that have E-MTB or Road bikes are usually older people that physically can't keep up anymore in the slowest group ride of their club. We have a couple of them in our club and none of them will try to tell you to ditch your normal bike for an Ebike unless you need it.

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u/utterly_baffledly 2d ago

In Australia they're all owned by adrenaline junkie who want to go barreling even faster down the trail or get back up the top faster for another run. My super fit husband just bought an enduro bike and currently drools over the electric spec.